About

I am a Ph.D. student at Princeton University, advised by Karthik Narasimhan. Previously, I graduated from Yao Class at Tsinghua University.

In my work, I build language agents (e.g. CALM, WebShop, ReAct, Reflexion, ToT) to interact with internal and external worlds, via reasoning and acting.

In my life, I like reading, basketball, pool, travel, and rap.

I would appreciate (annoynomous) feedback about anything!

Recent News

Recent Papers

  • Referral Augmentation for Zero-Shot Information Retrieval
    Michael Tang, Shunyu Yao, John Yang, Karthik Narasimhan
    paper | code | tweet

  • Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning
    Noah Shinn, Federico Cassano, Beck Labash, Ashwin Gopinath, Karthik Narasimhan, Shunyu Yao
    paper | code | tweet

  • Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
    Shunyu Yao, Dian Yu, Jeffrey Zhao, Izhak Shafran, Thomas L. Griffiths, Yuan Cao, Karthik Narasimhan
    paper | code | tweet

  • ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
    Shunyu Yao, Jeffrey Zhao, Dian Yu, Nan Du, Izhak Shafran, Karthik Narasimhan, Yuan Cao
    ICLR 2023 (Oral top 5%)
    paper | code | tweet | project | Google AI blogpost

  • WebShop: Towards Scalable Real-World Web Interaction with Grounded Language Agents
    Shunyu Yao*, Howard Chen*, John Yang, Karthik Narasimhan
    NeurIPS 2022
    paper | code | tweet | project | demo | Quanta Magazine

Recent Talks

  • Towards Autonomous Language Agents
    • DeepMind, London, Apr 2023
    • EPFL NLP Group, Lausanne, Mar 2023
    • Berekley NLP Group, Berekley, Mar 2023
    • OpenAI, San Francisco, Mar 2023
    • Adept AI, San Francisco, Mar 2023
  • Re-thinking Reinforcement Learning in the Era of Large Language Models
    • Jane Street, New York, Apr 2023
  • ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
    • ICLR, Kigali, May 2023
    • EMNLP EvoNLP & NILLI Workshops, Abu Dhabi, Dec 2022
    • NeurIPS FMDM Workshop, New Orleans, Nov 2022
  • Towards Human-like Language Models
    • Princeton Cognitive Science Colloquium, Princeton, Nov 2022
  • WebShop: Towards Scalable Real-World Web Interaction with Grounded Language Agents
    • University of Washington, Seattle, July 2022

Recent Readings

  • 西方语言学史 (姚小平)
  • Antoni Gaudí(dosde)
  • A Simpler Life (The School of Life)
  • The Search (John Battelle)
  • Leadership: In Turbulent Times (Doris Kearns Goodwin)

(last updated: May 2023)